Illegal Aliens: A Preliminary Report on an Employee-Employer Survey
This paper reports on the development and preliminary analysis of a unique data file that includes matched employee-employer data for a sample of illegal aliens and parallel data on the establishment and workforce for employers randomly selected from industry directories. It is shown how these data can be used to address substantive issues regarding the labor market adjustment and impact of illegal aliens through 2 examples analyses of wages and on-the-job training. In addition to the myriad of specific conclusions that have been developed from the methodological and data analyses 2 general conclusions emerge from this project. 1 is that the methodology is successful for investigating the labor market adjustment and impact of illegal aliens. More generally it demonstrates the feasibility of developing employee-employer matched data files for other demographic groups or the labor force as a whole. The other is that the illegal alien labor market appears to be well-functioning; i.e. it is competitive fluid and flexible and provides opportunities for economic advancement and job mobility even for low-skilled foreign-born workers in this country illegally. (authors)
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